Ask BBMP to crack down on contractors not segregating wet, dry waste.
High court judges who have been hearing petitions on garbage disposal in the city said each of the 28 assembly constituencies in the state should have a waste-processing centre.
Justices N Kumar and BV Nagarathna on Sunday inspected the waste-to-biogas plant in Kuvempunagar, and waste-processing arrangements near the landfills in Doddaballapur and Mavallipura. After taking stock of the facilities, they said city’s garbage should not be moved out of its limits. Instead, they said, each assembly constituency should have its own waste-processing unit.
“Residents of the Mavallipura landfill, where garbage used to be dumped until a year ago, are facing a lot of problems even now. A few deaths have been reported, drinking water has become contaminated and the environment has degraded. We have to ensure that the waste generated in Bangalore does not move out of the city,” said Justice Kumar after hearing the grievances of residents who live around the landfill.
He said that he would visit the Mandur landfill—where a majority of the city’s waste is dumped—and take stock of the situation.
“At the moment, the city’s waste is dumped in the Mandur landfill, but we will not allow it to go for long and put their residents under hardship,” he said.
He also directed BBMP Officials to cancel the licences of garbage disposal contractors who do not segregate dry and wet waste.
“It has come to my notice that some contractors are not segregating the dry and wet waste. BBMP should warn them and if they continue doing the same, their contracts should be terminated,” he said.
Justice Kumar said that he was impressed with the recycling facilities at the Terra Firma plant near Doddaballapur.
“Apart the fact that the recycling facilities are good here there are no villages around this area, unlike other landfills. Local employment is also generated as many have found employment here,” he said.
While inspecting the bio-methanisation plant in Kuvempunagar, resident welfare association complained to the judges that there was shortage of manpower and the garbage collection and segregation was not done scientifically.
BBMP commissioner M Lakshminarayana, who accompanied the judges, said the suggestions given by the judges would be implemented. He said setting up re-cycling plants in all the assembly constituencies of the city would help the BBMP as Rs40 crore are spent on transporting garbage from the wards to the landfills.
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